Word: swingeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...global game of personal diplomacy, President Eisenhower was slow to play the U.S.'s ace-himself. As the world's most popular political leader, he is also the U.S.'s most effective ambassador. Last week Ike announced an historic presidential diplomatic mission. He will swing for 19 days and 19,500 miles through nine nations of Southern Europe and Southern Asia, centering on the Western summit meeting in Paris, Dec. 19. Said he: There will not be "a great deal of time for dallying along...
...your English readers was charmed with the glimpses of England behind Britain's Macmillan on the Oct. 19 TIME cover. However, I was surprised to note that the swing to the right in the election was so pronounced that the traffic under the Prime Minister's nose is keeping to the right. I doubt whether even a big Tory majority could cause such a change. Maybe the picture shows a narrow, one-way street, and the cyclists are merely Labor voters walking their machines against the traffic to demonstrate that freeborn Britons can go where they darn well...
...least some businessmen began to realize that sponsors had their share of the responsibility for the scandal. In a speech to the Sales Executives Club in Manhattan, Philip Cortney, president of Coty, Inc., took a roundhouse swing at his archrival, Revlon (sponsors of The $64,000 Question, co-sponsors of The $64,000 Challenge). Businessmen who profited from rigged shows, said Cortney, should be called to account by congressional committees. Their "illgotten gains" should be donated to charity as "conscience money." Businessmen, Cortney concluded, ought to keep their hands off entertainment...
...Princeton Tigertones and Jack Carleton's Band highlight the Lowell "Orange Ball." Quincy's "Tiger Tail Swing" has the Princeton Tigertones, the Freddy Guerra Orchestra, and folk-singing...
...news and candy butcher on the daily train to Detroit. The conductor let him build a tiny laboratory in a corner of the baggage car, and Tom fiddled with test tubes, chemicals and batteries. One morning, his arms full of newspapers, Tom tried to swing on to the departing train. He would have fallen under the wheels if a trainman had not hauled him aboard by the ears. Something "snapped" in the boy's head, and his deafness may have started at that moment. Years later, Edison wrote: "I haven't heard a bird sing since...